What you shouldn't forget is that
your novel bears your name and is your legacy.
Not exact matches
Scarcely mentioned in the
novel that
bears its
name, Wolf Hall is the family seat of Jane Seymour, the eventual third wife of the king.
Later, the hero of the
novel was to
bear the boy's
name.
The movie is based on a
novel, which ironically also came out in 2005, of the same
name by Japanese -
born British author Kazuo Ishiguro.
There's a strict hierarchy of Iron Curtain power, no holds barred bloodshed, costumes that rival the best period pieces and, most importantly, a mesmerizing story (based off of Tom Rob Smith's
novel bearing the same
name).
Based on the sixth
novel to
bear King's
name, Cujo is about a rabid St. Bernard dog who wreaks havoc on a mother and her young son.
Based on Marcus Sakey's
novel of the same
name, Brilliance takes place in a world where certain people called «brilliants» are
born with special abilities.
March 25, 2018 • Tom Rachman's new
novel The Italian Teacher takes place in the art world, where a bigger than life artist
named Bear Bavinsky makes it hard for his adoring son to form his own indentity.
And since a graphic
novel has won the Printz Award before (American
Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang in 2007), the committee may be open to
naming another sequential art winner.
For example, when Damien is
born, Granny Monroe protests the choice of his
name by saying: «He'll turn into a gayboy if you're not careful,» and by the end of the
novel we're aware that Damien does, in fact, grow up to be a gay man.
ABOUT THIS BOOK The
novel's setting is a town known only by the
name given it by its Asian -
born residents: Dasht - e-Tanhaii, or «Desert of Loneliness.»
Sam Lipsyte,
born in 1968 in New York City, is the author of the story collection Venus Drive (
named one of the top twenty - five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and three
novels: The Ask, The Subject Steve and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award.
Janet Evanovich (
born Janet Schneider, 1943, in South River, New Jersey) began her career writing short contemporary romance
novels under the pen
name Steffie Hall, but became a # 1 New York Times bestselling author writing a... (more)
So in this
novel, a girl
named Olivia is
born in 1956 «to a nun in an old auto parts store turned convent in rural Mississippi...» — and that's just the beginning of this strange American phantasmagoria.
This year breaks precedence with the award going to The Shadow Hero (Macmillan / First Second) by Gene Luen Yang «a writer who has made his
name in the graphic
novel industry, where he wrote and illustrated the first ever graphic
novel to be a finalist for the National Book Award [Boxers and Saints]-- and the first ever graphic
novel to win the Printz Award [American
Born Chinese].»
Say Her
Name is the extraordinary
novel born out of this personal tragedy.
A nom de plume adopted from a character in the 2005
novel Reena Spaulings penned by the dozens of collaborators aligned with the obscurantist Bernadette Corporation, Codax started a rumor a few years back that monochrome paintings
bearing his
name, which appeared in a few hip galleries, were in fact, the work of the veteran Swiss provocateur Olivier Mosset and the young New Yorker Jacob Kassay, whose work was actively trading on the secondary market.